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Senate to discuss athletes
From Staff Reports
In today's University Senate meeting the main topic
of discussion is the academic status of student athletes at Purdue.
According to University Senate document 01-2, the
athletic affairs committee of the senate and the intercollegiate athletics
department tend to the "academic and social well being of student athletics."
In conjunction with the intercollegiate athletics
department, the committee will be reporting on the status of student
athletes on campus and on its goals for athletes in the future.
The goal would call for the grade point averages
of athletes to be "equal to or greater than the campus semester average."
As reported in the document, for the fall 2001
semester on average, student athletes received a higher GPA by .06 than
the University wide GPA average.
In addition to student athlete GPAs, the committee
will be discussing athlete graduation rates, the faculty control of
athletics and the highlights of Purdue sports teams during 2001.
Although the academic status of student athletes
will be one of the main topics at today's meeting, the senate will also
hear a report from the board of trustees and discuss nominations for
several senate committees.
The educational policy committee has eight positions
to fill, the faculty affairs committee has six vacancies, the student
affairs committee has two vacancies and the University resources policy
committee has five vacancies.
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Senate
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